10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AUGURSHIP»
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1
Cicero's Select Orations, translated into English [by ...
You alledged that you quitted your pretensions to the, augurship, in my favour.
Incredible assurance! astonishing impu'dencel at the time when'Cn. Pompey, and
Q._ Hortensius nomi-, nated me augur, (for two only could do it) at the request of
...
Marcus Tullius Cicero, William DUNCAN (Professor of Philosophy in the University of Aberdeen.), 1756
2
Select Orations ... Translated ... by William Duncan
You alleged that you quitted your pretensio'ns to the augurship, in my favour.
Incre. dible assurance! astonishing impudencei At the . time when Cn. Pompey
and Q. Hortensius nominated me augur, (for two only could do it), at the request
of the ...
Marcus Tullius Cicero, William DUNCAN (Professor of Philosophy in the University of Aberdeen.), 1814
The augurship would have bought him. "So pitiful," says the biographer, "was the
bribe to which he would have sacrificed his honor, his opinions, and the
commonwealth!" With no more sententious language was the character of a great
man ...
4
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero
And, not to waste any more words on your augurship, (and I speak of it all against
my will, as I do not wish to recollect the ruin of the republic; for, indeed, you
yourself never thought that you would be augur as long as not only the majesty of
...
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 1852
5
Descriptive catalogue of a cabinet of Roman family coins ...
The pontifical emblems of course indicate the augurship of Faustus. 35. Cornelia.
(B — SVLLA CO(n)S(uZ). A bare and beardless head of Sylla, the consul or
dictator, with a handsome, intelligent face, and aquiline Roman nose ; but not at
all ...
William Henry Smyth, 1856
6
Select orations of Cicero, tr. by W. Duncan
But you neither did it, nor, had you been inclined, would Curio have permitted
you.3 You alleged that you quitted your pretensions to the augurship, in my
favour. Incredible assurance ! astonishing impudence ! At the time when Cn.
Pompey ...
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 1841
7
The Philippic Orations of M. Tullius Cicero
Cp. c. 30, yd 9. C. Curionem. See c. 18, 44-46. It was to Curio's influence that
Antony owed his election to the augurship, 5 s B. C., three years after Cicero's
admission to the college. Cp. Plut. Ant. 5 fifyrapxov 6-/re'6sr{e rbv 'Av'ra5vrav, J-ru
. nini ...
Marcus Tullius Cicero, John Richard King, 1868
8
A Discourse of Natural and Reveal'd Religion in Several ...
... have held the Augurship Sixty two years unto his .Deathz and Julius C/esczr *
when he usurp'd all the great Offices upon his subversion of the Common-wealth,
aflum'd also that of the Augurship, as appears by the Lihmr * ' . . on '_158 Of the ...
9
The Complete Cicero Anthology: "On Friendship", "On Old ...
Butyoudid notdoso,nor, if youhadwished it, wouldCaiusCurio have eversuffered
youtodo so.Youhave said,that youretired in my favourfromthe contestforthe
augurship. Oh the incredible audacity! oh the monstrous impudenceof
suchanassertion ...
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 2012
10
A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X : Volume IV: Book X: Volume IV:
whose houses you have made stand out among others with the spoils of the
enemy nailed to them, add the emblems of the priesthood and augurship (sc. to
the emblems which they have gained from the honours that you have already
given to ...
